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Frontmatter
List of Tables
List of Illustrations
List of Maps
Preface
Book One The Old Social Classes
PART I INTRODUCTION
1 The "Old Social Classes": Practical and Theoretical Clarifications; Applicability of Concept; Difficulties of Analysis
2 Of the Diversity of Iraqis, the Incohesiveness of Their Society, and Their Progress in the Monarchic Period toward a Consolidated Political Structure
3 The Geographic Distribution of the Principal Racial-Religious Groups and Relevant Causative Factors
4 Some Religious-Class and Ethnic-Class Correlations
PART II THE MAIN CLASSES AND STATUS GROUPS
5 The Mallaks or Landowners
6 The Shaikhs, Aghas, and Peasants
7 The Sadah
8 The Old "Aristocracy" of Officals
9 The Chalabis and the Jewish Merchants and Merchant-Sarrafs
10 The Crown and the Ex-Sharifian Officers
Book Two The Communists from the Beginnings of Their Movement to the Fifties
PART I BEGINNINGS IN THE ARAB EAST
11 The Earliest "Levelers"; the Armenian Hentchak; the Jewish Communists; and the Communist International
PART II BEGINNINGS IN IRAQ
12 Husain ar-Rahhal, as-Sahifah Group, and at-Tadamun Club
13 Pyotr Vasili and the Basrah and Nasiriyyah Communist Circles
14 The Founding of the Iraqi Communist Party
15 Two Iraqis-Three Sects
16 Beginning again; or the Communists in the Period of the Coups d'Etat (1936-1941)
PART III CAUSES
17 Of the General Causes That Made for the Increase of Communism in the Two Decades before the July Revolution
PART IV FAHD AND THE PARTY (1941-1949)
18 Fahd
19 Toward a Tightly Knit, Ideologically Homogeneous Party
20 New Situations, New Approaches
21 The Arrest of Fahd and after
22 Al-Wathbah
23 The Disaster; the Death of Fahd on the Gallows; the "Children Communists"
24 Fahd, the Communist International, the Soviets, the Syrian Communists, and the People's Party
25 The Communists and the Question of Palestine
26 The Character, Scope, and Forms of Party Activity
27 The Organization, Membership, and Social Structure of the Party (1941-1949)
28 The Finances of the Party
PART V THE PARTY IN THE YEARS 1949-1955, OR THE PERIOD OF THE ASCENDANCY OF THE KURDS IN THE PARTY
29 Baha'-ud-Din Nuri Rebuilds the Party
30 The Intifadah of November
31 More and More Extremism, Less and Less Sense
32 A Defeat for the Party, or the Birth of the Baghdad Pact
33 A Bit of Forgotten History, or the Tragic Occurrences at the Baghdad and the Kut Prisons
34 A Debate on Religion
35 The Composition of the Party (1949-1955)
Book Three The Communists, the Ba'thists, and the Free Officers from the Fifties to the Present
36 The Communist Helm Changes Hands, the Communist Ranks Close
37 The New Strong Men of the Communist Party: Hussain Ahmad ar-Radi, 'Amer 'Abdallah, and Jamal al-Haidari
38 The Ba'th of the Fifties: Its Origins, Creed, Organization, and Membership
39 The Arabization of the Communist Party's View and the Risings at Najaf and Hayy in 1956
40 The Formation of the Supreme National Committee, February 1957
41 The Free Officers, the Communists, and the July 1958 Revolution
42 "Sole Leader," Dual Power
43 Mutual Antagonism, Mutual Defeat
44 Mosul, March 1959
45 The Flow
46 Kirkuk, July 1959
47 The Ebb
48 The Self-Flagellation
49 The Recovery
50 The Bogus Party
51 From Pillar to Post
52 The Ba'thists Make Preparation, the Communists Give Warning
53 "The Bitterest of Years"
54 The Composition and Organization of the Communist Party (1955-1963)
55 The First Ba'thi Regime, or toward One-Party Rule
56 The Younger 'Aref, the Nasirites, and the Communists
57 Under the Elder 'Aref, or the Rift in the Communist Ranks
58 The Second Ba'thi Regime
59 Conclusion
APPENDIX ONE. EARLIEST BOLSHEVIK ACTIVITIES AND CONTACTS
A. "O Moslems! Listen to This Divine Cry!"
B. The Bolsheviks and the 'Ulama' of the Holy Cities
C. The Bolsheviks, the Comintern, and the Arab Nationalists
D. An Overture in Teheran
APPENDIX TWO. SUPPLEMENTARY TABLES
Bibliography
Glossary
Index I; Names of Families and Tribes
Index II: Personal Names
Index III: Subjects
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